Auschwitz - World War II - HISTORY.com Google Auschwitz: Genesis of Death Camps After the start of World War II , Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, implemented a policy that came to be known as the “Final Solution.” Hitler was determined not just to isolate Jews in Germany and countries annexed by the Nazis, subjecting them to dehumanizing regulations and random acts of violence. Instead, he became convinced that his “Jewish problem” would be solved only with the elimination of every Jew in his domain, along with artists, educators, Gypsies, communists, homosexuals, the mentally and physically handicapped and others deemed unfit for survival in Nazi Germany. Did You Know? In October 1944, a group of Auschwitz "Sonderkommando," young Jewish males responsible for removing corpses from crematoriums and gas chambers, staged a revolt. They assaulted their guards, using tools and makeshift explosives, and demolished a crematorium. All were apprehended and killed. To complete this mission, Hitler ordered the construction of death camps.

Unlike concentration camps, which had existed in Germany since 1933 and were detention centers for Jews, political prisoners and other perceived enemies of the Nazi state, death camps existed for the sole purpose of killing Jews and other “undesirables,” in what became known as the Holocaust. Auschwitz: The Largest of the Death Camps Auschwitz, the largest and arguably the most notorious of all the Nazi death camps, opened in the spring of 1940. Its first commandant was Rudolf Höss (1900-47), who previously had helped run the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany. Auschwitz was located on a former military base outside OÅ›wiÄ™cim, a town in southern Poland situated near Krakow, one of the country’s largest cities. During the camp’s construction, nearby factories were appropriated and all those living in the area were forcibly ejected from their homes, which were bulldozed by the Nazis. Auschwitz originally was conceived as a concentration camp, to be used as a detention center for the many Polish citizens arrested after Germany annexed the country in 1939.

These detainees included anti-Nazi activists, politicians, resistance members and luminaries from the cultural and scientific communities. Once Hitler’s Final Solution became official Nazi policy, however, Auschwitz was deemed an ideal death camp locale. For one thing, it was situated near the center of all German-occupied countries on the European continent. For another, it was in close proximity to the string of rail lines used to transport detainees to the network of Nazi camps. However, not all those arriving at Auschwitz were immediately exterminated. Those deemed fit to work were employed as slave labor in the production of munitions, synthetic rubber and other products considered essential to Germany’s efforts in World War II. Auschwitz and Its Subdivisions At its peak of operation, Auschwitz consisted of several divisions. The original camp, known as Auschwitz I, housed between 15,000 and 20,000 political prisoners.

Those entering its main gate were greeted with an infamous and ironic inscription: “Arbeit Macht Frei,” or “Work Makes You Free.” Auschwitz II, located in the village of Birkenau, or Brzezinka, just outside OÅ›wiÄ™cim, was constructed in 1941 on the order of Heinrich Himmler (1900-45), commander of the “Schutzstaffel” (or Select Guard/Protection Squad, more commonly known as the SS), which operated all Nazi concentration camps and death camps. Birkenau, the biggest of the Auschwitz facilities, could hold some 90,000 prisoners. It also housed a group of bathhouses where countless people were gassed to death, and crematory ovens where bodies were burned. The majority of Auschwitz victims died at Birkenau.More than 40 smaller facilities, called subcamps, dotted the landscape and served as slave-labor camps. The largest of these subcamps, Monowitz, also known as Auschwitz III, began operating in 1942 and housed some 10,000 prisoners.

Life and Death in Auschwitz By mid-1942, the majority of those being sent by the Nazis to Auschwitz were Jews. Upon arriving at the camp, detainees were examined by Nazi doctors. Those detainees considered unfit for work, including young children, the elderly, pregnant women and the infirm, were immediately ordered to take showers. However, the bathhouses to which they marched were disguised gas chambers. Once inside, the prisoners were exposed to Zyklon-B poison gas. Individuals marked as unfit for work were never officially registered as Auschwitz inmates. For this reason, it is impossible to calculate the number of lives lost in the camp. For those prisoners who initially escaped the gas chambers, an undetermined number died from overwork, disease, insufficient nutrition or the daily struggle for survival in brutal living conditions. Arbitrary executions, torture and retribution happened daily, in front of the other prisoners. Some Auschwitz prisoners were subjected to inhumane medical experimentation. The chief perpetrator of this barbaric research was Josef Mengele (1911-79), a German physician who began working at Auschwitz in 1943. Mengele, who came to be known as the “Angel of Death,” performed a range of experiments on detainees.

For example, in an effort to study eye color, he injected serum into the eyeballs of dozens of children, causing them excruciating pain. He also injected chloroform into the hearts of twins, to determine if both siblings would die at the same time and in the same manner. Liberation of Auschwitz: 1945 As 1944 came to a close and the defeat of Nazi Germany by the Allied forces seemed certain, the Auschwitz commandants began destroying evidence of the horror that had taken place there. Buildings were torn down, blown up or set on fire, and records were destroyed. In January 1945, as the Soviet army entered Krakow, the Germans ordered that Auschwitz be abandoned. Before the end of the month, in what came to be known as the Auschwitz death marches, an estimated 60,000 detainees, accompanied by Nazi guards, departed the camp and were forced to march to the Polish towns of Gliwice or Wodzislaw, some 30 miles away. Countless prisoners died during this process; those who made it to the sites were sent on trains to concentration camps in Germany.

When the Soviet army entered Auschwitz on January 27, they found approximately 7,600 sick or emaciated detainees who had been left behind. The liberators also discovered mounds of corpses, hundreds of thousands of pieces of clothing and pairs of shoes and seven tons of human hair that had been shaved from detainees before their liquidation. According to some estimates, between 1.1 million to 1.5 million people, the vast majority of them Jews, died at Auschwitz during its years of operation. An estimated 70,000 to 80,000 Poles perished at the camp, along with 19,000 to 20,000 Gypsies and smaller numbers of Soviet prisoners of war and other individuals. Tags Nazi Party - World War II - HISTORY.com Google Nazi Party Origins In 1919, army veteran Adolf Hitler , frustrated by Germany’s defeat in World War, which had left the nation economically depressed and politically unstable, joined a fledgling political organization called the German Workers’ Party.

Founded earlier that same year by a small group of men including locksmith Anton Drexler (1884-1942) and journalist Karl Harrer (1890-1926), the party promoted German nationalism and anti-Semitism, and felt that the Treaty of Versailles , the peace settlement that ended the war, was extremely unjust to Germany by burdening it with reparations it could never pay. Hitler soon emerged as a charismatic public speaker and began attracting new members with speeches blaming Jews and Marxists for Germany’s problems and espousing extreme nationalism and the concept of an Aryan “master race.” In July 1921, he assumed leadership of the organization, which by then had been renamed the Nationalist Socialist German Workers’ (Nazi) Party. Did You Know? Sales of Hitler's political autobiography "Mein Kampf," sometimes referred to as the bible of the Nazi Party, made him a millionaire. From 1933 to 1945, free copies were given to every newlywed German couple. After World War II, the publication of "Mein Kampf" in Germany became illegal.

Through the 1920s, Hitler gave speech after speech in which he stated that unemployment, rampant inflation, hunger and economic stagnation in postwar Germany would continue until there was a total revolution in German life. Most problems could be solved, he explained, if communists and Jews were driven from the nation. His fiery speeches swelled the ranks of the Nazi Party, especially among young, economically disadvantaged Germans. In 1923, Hitler and his followers staged the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, a failed takeover of the government in Bavaria, a state in southern Germany. Hitler had hoped that the “putsch,” or coup d’etat, would spark a larger revolution against the national government. In the aftermath of the Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler was convicted of treason and sentenced to five years in prison, but spent less than a year behind bars (during which time he dictated the first volume of “Mein Kampf,” or “My Struggle,” his political autobiography). The publicity surrounding the Beer Hall Putsch and Hitler’s subsequent trial turned him into a national figure. After his release from prison, he set about rebuilding the Nazi Party and attempting to gain power through the election process.

Hitler and the Nazis Come to Power: 1933 In 1929, Germany entered a period of severe economic depression and widespread unemployment. The Nazis capitalized on the situation by criticizing the ruling government and began to win elections. In the July 1932 elections, they captured 230 out of 608 seats in the “Reichstag,” or German parliament. In January 1933, Hitler was appointed German chancellor and his Nazi government soon came to control every aspect of German life. Under Nazi rule, all other political parties were banned. In 1933, the Nazis opened their first concentration camp, in Dachau , Germany, to house political prisoners. Dachau evolved into a death camp where countless thousands of Jews died from malnutrition, disease and overwork or were executed. In addition to Jews, the camp’s prisoners included members of other groups Hitler considered unfit for the new Germany, including artists, intellectuals, Gypsies, the physically and mentally handicapped and homosexuals.

Militant Foreign Policy: 1933-39 Once Hitler gained control of the government, he directed Nazi Germany’s foreign policy toward undoing the Treaty of Versailles and restoring Germany’s standing in the world. He railed against the treaty’s redrawn map of Europe and argued it denied Germany, Europe’s most populous state, “living space” for its growing population. Although the Treaty of Versailles was explicitly based on the principle of the self-determination of peoples, he pointed out that it had separated Germans from Germans by creating such new postwar states as Austria and Czechoslovakia, where many Germans lived. From the mid- to late 1930s, Hitler undermined the postwar international order step by step. He withdrew Germany from the League of Nations in 1933, rebuilt German armed forces beyond what was permitted by the Treaty of Versailles, reoccupied the German Rhineland in 1936, annexed Austria in 1938 and invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939. When Nazi Germany moved toward Poland, Great Britain and France countered further aggression by guaranteeing Polish security.

Nevertheless, Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, and Great Britain and France declared war on Germany. Six years of Nazi Party foreign policy had ignited World War II . Fight to Dominate Europe: 1939-45 After conquering Poland, Hitler focused on defeating Britain and France. As the war expanded, the Nazi Party formed alliances with Japan and Italy in the Tripartite Pact of 1940, and honored its 1939 Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact with the Soviet Union until 1941, when Germany launched a massive blitzkrieg invasion of the Soviet Union. In the brutal fighting that followed, Nazi troops tried to realize the long-held goal of crushing the world’s major communist power. After the United States entered the war in 1941, Germany found itself fighting in North Africa, Italy, France, the Balkans and in a counterattacking Soviet Union. At the beginning of the war, Hitler and his Nazi Party were fighting to dominate Europe; five years later they were fighting to exist.

Systematic Murder of European Jews When Hitler and the Nazis came to power in 1933, they instituted a series of measures aimed at persecuting Germany’s Jewish citizens. By late 1938, Jews were banned from most public places in Germany. During the war, the Nazis’ anti-Jewish campaigns increased in scale and ferocity. In the invasion and occupation of Poland, German troops shot thousands of Polish Jews, confined many to ghettoes where they starved to death and began sending others to death camps in various parts of Poland, where they were either killed immediately or forced into slave labor. In 1941, when Germany invaded the Soviet Union, Nazi death squads machine-gunned tens of thousands of Jews in the western regions of Soviet Russia. In early 1942, at the Wannsee Conference near Berlin, the Nazi Party decided on the last phase of what it called the “Final Solution” of the “Jewish problem” and spelled out plans for the systematic murder of all European Jews. In 1942 and 1943, Jews in the western occupied countries including France and Belgium were deported by the thousands to the death camps mushrooming across Europe.

In Poland, huge death camps such as Auschwitz began operating with ruthless efficiency. The murder of Jews in German-occupied lands stopped only in last months of the war, as the German armies were retreating toward Berlin. By the time Hitler committed suicide in April 1945, some 6 million Jews had died. Denazification After the war, the Allies occupied Germany, outlawed the Nazi Party and worked to purge its influence from every aspect of German life. The party’s swastika flag quickly became a symbol of evil in modern postwar culture. Although Hitler killed himself before he could be brought to justice, a number of Nazi officials were convicted of war crimes in the Nuremberg trials, which took place in Nuremberg, Germany, from 1945 to 1949. Tags 10 of the Worst Nazi Concentration Camps | Top Secret Writers 10 of the Worst Nazi Concentration Camps Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Pinterest 0 Google 4 LinkedIn 0 With the President’s recent faux-pas concerning Nazi concentration camps, these horrific places are once again in the news.

Many Nazi concentration camps were located in Poland, but to call them “Polish death camps” is an error that the President of the United States should have known not to make. These Nazi-run camps were designed as prisons, labor camps, death camps, and human experiment laboratories. Not every concentration camp was considered a death camp, meaning that not all were specifically designed and built to kill hundreds of thousands of Jews and other “undesirables,” but every camp was riddled with death and disease. Below is a list of some of the most infamous Nazi concentration camps. The 10 Worst Nazi Concentration Camps of WWII 1. Auschwitz-Birkenau. Also known as Auschwitz I and II, these camps are probably the most infamous camps of World War II. The complex was made up three smaller sub-camps. One was a work camp. When the prisoner was too old or too sick to work, he was sent to the death camp. Once murdered, slain prisoners were sent to the final facility – a crematorium. Auschwits had the capacity to murder 20,000 prisoners per day. It is estimated that at least 1.1 million people died there. 2. Treblinka.

This complex was another extermination camp. Like Auschwitz, one portion of the facility was a forced labor camp while the other was death camp. The workers were forced to work in the gravel pits and irrigation areas. When they could no longer work, the prisoners were sent to the death camp; Treblinka II. It is estimated that at least 870,000 Jews and Roma people were killed at Treblinka. 3. Ebensee. This camp was established in November of 1943 in Austria. This was another forced labor camp that provided slave labor to build underground tunnels for Nazi armaments. The prisoners were literally worked to death. Due to the death rates there, Ebensee was considered to be one of the worst concentration camps in the Nazi network. 4. Sobibor. Sobibor was another Nazi extermination camp located in Poland. It is estimated that 200,000 to 250,000 prisoners were murdered there. On October 14, 1943, the prisoners revolted, killing several guards. Nearly 600 prisoners were able to escape.

Almost immediately after the revolt occurred, the Nazis destroyed the camp and planted a huge number of trees in its place in an effort to conceal the camp’s former location. Lesser-Known Concentration Camps 5. Majdanek. Located near Lubin, Poland, Majdanek was considered to be a forced labor camp. However, it is estimated that nearly 80,000 people died there. The prisoners were forced to work the Steyr-Daimler-Puch weapons/munitions factory. However, the camp was also used a morbid sorting facility. Prisoners were forced to sort the property and valuables taken from the murder victims located at the Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka extermination camps. 6. Belzec. This camp is another Nazi extermination camp located in Poland. It is one of the first camps built and used in Operation Reinhard, the Nazi’s systematic plan to exterminate Polish Jews. It is estimated that more than 500,000 Jews were murdered at Belzec; however, little is known about the facility because there are only two known survivors of the death camp. 7. Chelmno.

This extermination camp was infamous for its use of gas vans. Prisoners were herded into air-tight compartments located in the back of vans. The doors were sealed and the van’s exhaust system was pumped into the air-tight compartment until the prisoners died of carbon monoxide poisoning. It has been estimated that more than 150,000 people were killed at Chelmno. 8. Bergen-Belsen. This prisoner of war camp was located in Germany was used primarily for hostage exchanges. It is estimated that about 50,000 prisoners died in the camp, mainly of typhus, which caused the prisoners to become feverish and often deteriorate into a state of delirium. Final Camps of Death 9. Buchenwald. Buchenwald was a forced labor camp located in Germany. Prisoners were forced to work in weapons and armament facilities. However, the camp was also used as a Nazi research facility for typhus. While at the camp, prisoners were commonly exposed to the disease to allow Nazi scientists to test various experimental vaccines. It is estimated that more than 55,000 prisoners were killed at Buchenwald. 10.

Dachau – Dachau was located in Germany and was the first concentration camp of the Nazi regime. This camp was also the longest operating camp in the Nazi network and was used as a prototype facility that all future camps would be designed after. It also served as a training facility for concentration camp guards. Scientists at Dachau experimented on the prisoners as well. Their terrible research covered high altitude effects on the human body, and making sea water drinkable; among other experiments. These experiments usually resulted in the crippling, disfiguring, or death of the subjects. These are only glimpses into the horrific events that took places in the Nazi concentration camps. There were about 15,000 Nazi extermination, forced labor, and concentration camps throughout Germany. The full extent of the atrocities that took place in those camps may never fully be known. References & Image Credits: Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Pinterest 0 Google 4 LinkedIn 0 Anonymous Dennis, Why not get a jump on everyone else and start tagging our FEMA camps for which one will win the superior atrocities award?

Olrik Alfred Hitchcock made a documentary about these so-called “death camps” BEFORE any of them had been liberated. Trevor Kelly OMG!!!!! WHY KILL ALL these people?!?!?!?! I can’t STAND THIS!!!!!! Probably more than 1,000 people die!!! Let tem live!!! I’m NOT trying to cause trouble I’m JUST saying. Nimbunje Still you gotta ask how the Germans were able to avert the MSDS risk of the chemicals used and how they were able to make a non airtight gas chamber and open drain under the camp prevent everyone in the camp being poisoned .Let alone everyone unloading all those poisoned bodies without PPE’s .No ones game to answer that one ,so what’s the go ? Ryan Dube Well, my understanding of MSDS risks is that it’s all about long-term exposure…the sorts of manufacturing issues people face after 30 to 40 years of working somewhere. That isn’t exactly applicable here… Philippine Water District Fantastic job. I didn’t anticipate this. This is a excellent story. Thanks! Jordan About 3.5 million died in actual death camps and about 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust all together.

11 million is an estimate of all the people (Jews, Gypsies, Disabled, etc.) who died in the Holocaust. Way more than 1,000, kiddo. Plus they already died, these no longer exist, so don’t worry. izo the worst concentration camp by cruelty is jasenovac in nazi croatia…much worse then auscwitz, there were killings only by knifes and hammers and all kind of torture, this was real hell where guards were sadistic psychopats, even germans were shocked by their crimes, half milion serbs died there, 35.000 gypses, 30.000 jews, 10.000 antifascicst croats, 10.000 muslims and many others, even some 5.000 slovenes Truth Be Known I wish we had one of these so-called “extermination” camps hidden away in the US somewhere today – there’s a good number of politicians holding dual citizenship that are in need of a good short vacation at one!!! Ryan Dube Why is Jasenovac not on this list??

Sara Why is Jasenovac not on this list?? Dennis Dufrene Hi Sara. Great question. Jasenovac is not on the list because it was not (technically) a Nazi concentration camp. It was the only concentration camp that was not operated by the Germans. Izo is right in that it was one of the worst extermination camps that emerged, but it was actually established and operated by the Croatian governing body known as the Ustaše regime. Though this regime had the support of the Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy during its operation, the camp’s main purpose was to exterminate ethnic Serbs from the Independent State of Croatia. That is not to say the regime did not murder Jews. In fact, they did, but it was not the main purpose of the camp. However, even though Jasenovac was a Ustaše concentration camp, it was still one of the most brutal. Because of the enigmatic history of this particular camp, a follow-up article focusing on Jasenovac may be in order. Thank you for reading!

Well we did have mourn,entry camps for the Japanese Americans but they weren’t exterminated Britton Thompson I’ve always heard that despite the Hell that the camps were to the inmates, medical science made enormous leaps in bounds during this time due to Nazi doctors having no compunction over conducting human medical testing. Can anyone tell me what these gains were? Which fields of medicine in particular saw the most advancements? Kelvin Yuan All of the camps that were showed were ruled by pyschopats just like the Germany chancellor Hitler. You have to think that if he was never born all of those souls would still be here today. Most of the population would be alive if @@#$@#$ Hitler and his crazy ass Nazis were never born. Really think about that. Now its time for you to make a decision. If you think that what Hitler and his Nazis did was good, then you are just another pyschopat like them. THERE.

gram parsons i’ve read quite a lot on the camps and its generally felt very little worth while came out of them in purely medical terms.general consensus is there was never any coherent structure or emphasis on “saving” life to really amount to any real medical gains i’d be interested to know if you find anything that contradicts me. gram parsons yip!and it premiered on tv last night! mreichard7 I didn’t know that, and I’m a Hitchcock fan. Thank you; I’ll look for it. cleaner Where are you getting your figures? Jacob Allred I know and I was reading some were that 10,000 were killed omg Sweet C why one earth would you wish for an extermination camp, at which innocent people were killed at, in America?!?!?! DB Cooper Agreed. Not questioning your claim, but sourcing is always appreciated if possible. In any case, thanks for sharing what you know and educating others. DB Cooper The most important thing is that good people ALWAYS speak out against evil, regardless of the consequences. The moral of the Nazi story is that conformity, apathy and lack of courage can be very dangerous things. taylorRod Hitler is dead. So are his lieutenants.

We should be worrying about the next Hitler, one whose mannerisms are affable and reassuring and whose ideology sounds humane but will in fact lead to mass murder. pedro This really was a messed up person, Hitler of course, why would someone have this in mind. In his speeches he speaks of what was wrong with his country and what they needed to do to fix the problem. As everyone knows mostly everyone started to go with his flow, he basically said what the citizens wanted to hear, not all ……. but as we know there will be another person like this. As we know history tends to repeat itself….. many believe that hitler was the second anti- christ & that there may be another one… One that will say everything, everything that his citizens want to hear and support, but some don’t. He will be elected and start with what he said , but will do it in a smarter way exactly the same way hitler did only way smarter… just like napoleon did then hitler whose next we don’t know. … most believe that he already was born and has started his journey. Or I am just dumb with conspiracies/ theories … whatever you want to call it, but I believe that this will repeat. It will.

Who is the next him/her to do this? I simply believe that it is donald trump, why you may ask. He simply is different same as hitler & napoleon, they said something that the most majority of the people wanted to hear and where influenced by it. At the end they did what the said they will do but they did it differently they killed in big numbers and both started a war. I do not know if trump will be presented, but if he is then we are SHIT. Why the U.S is a free country where immagrants came for a different life.hitlers parents where half jews napoleon same with his family trump same with his …. just saying in my mind/ thoughts etc.. history is repeating itself. . Who agrees?? pedro Hitler.. he was a messed up person. In his mind jews were the problem in his country Germany. And the needed to be deported. Doesn’t this sound similar to the pass and present. Well napoleon did the same mass deportation what happened people agreed mass deportation happened, but in mass murders.

Same with hitler mass deportation people supported him thought that he was doing the best why because he said things his speeches like no other person in the country before him, napoleon same. People took them both as leaders yeah they brought jobs food later they started a war that lasted and many killed this is why people like us are dumb no offense to anyone that may read this. We choose the person that says things differently and mostly say what we really want to hear. Hitler/napoleon ” take away people that are not legal in our country ” mass deportation. People said yeah them illegals take our jobs and mostly start our problems in the country. This had to do with jews for both. Well jews where there already before they where there why would they do that? Nobody knows except that hitler wanted a museum that deals with the extinction of a human species one specific or religion you may say. It’s true you can search it up. And he also wanted to start a country with blonde people with blue eyes. But here is the thing napoleon & hitler said everything the same way did many of there things same way. Mass deportation ended in deaths and a war. Many believe that hitler was the second anti -christ.

I believe in these conspiracies/theories. Why they make sense to me and they think that there is a third one to await. I belive that it is donald trump why? He is saying everything exactly the same way as hitler and napoleon ” we don’t want these illegals in our country, they only bring problems with them and make it ours”. “So what I am going to do is to deport them back where they came from” . Hitler took jews to the east of Europe & around to kill them napoleon did the same . Donald well its just a guess. Never forget History repeats itself . We are doomed so. It’s is only my opinion and some facts. phatmama What about Darfur? Rwanda? The Jews are treating the Palestians puting them in Ghettos..restricting food people….sounds like Hitler to me!, Arkadius Majdanek was in Lublin not Lubin. These are two different cities in totally different parts of Poland. David Parker Key word “innocent”. Does the federal government have a right to directly tax we the people and take our homes when we don’t pay them what they demand?

Answer: No, the Constitution for the United States stipulates that representatives and direct taxation shall be by apportionment. The “income” (trick word income, legal definition is not what we learned in school) tax is not apportioned. Apportionment means: Con-gress has to name an amount they want to raise above the duties, excises, and imposts they are already taking, Congress then has to conduct a census, Congress then is to apportion according to the census an amount for each State to beat out of the people living within the State and the State is supposed to beat that amount out of the people living within State boundaries and hand it over to the treasury Apportionment is the only lawful means the federals have to directly tax we the people. So, I would suggest that the hundreds of thousands if not millions in government “service” are guilty of armed robbery who should be in a prison camp awaiting trial. Can anyone at the IRS, FBI, ATF, NSA, CIA be innocent of crimes and bear in mind that I mean felonies with criminal, not civil trials?

Crime is defined as injury to body or property: Theft, extortion, signing a W-4 “Agreement” under threat of not getting that job (duress), and having a third party called a bank with fiduciary responsibility to depositors stealing a man’s earnings (no trial and no court order) and giving them to the IRS are all crimes by definition and punishable with prison. However, restitution to the victims is more like it. Every IRS agent is a criminal and should be forced to pay restitution to everyone they took payment to defraud. Remember what comes out of their own mouths: Ignorance of the “law” is no excuse. Ditto to them. So, I am all for fair trials but let’s start with actual criminals. I would say start with that cabal known as the governors of the “federal (not) reserve (nothing) system (it is a racket)”, work down to the managers of the ten federal reserve banks, shift over to the federal agencies who have been the iron fist in the velvet government glove, and then start thinning the ranks of congress. It goes without saying that the CEO who did not uphold the Constitution should be hanging around somewhere in public view.

Sincerely, David Parker I don’t like the word “died”. They were murdered, they didn’t just spontaneously give up the ghost. They were brutally murdered, just like the people at Waco, just like the FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi murdered Randy Weaver’s wife and infant with one bullet, just like the false flag government terrorists mined the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City with the high explosive necessary to cut through nine or so ten-foot diameter steel reinforced concrete columns and murder children and blame it on Timothy McVeigh and his U-haul full of low yield ammonium nitrate fertilizer that wasn’t even powerful enough to knock down a neighboring brick building, and the big one, 9/11 rigged to sacrifice 3,000 and provide a pretext for very lucrative invasions and perpetual war in Iraq and Afghanistan to say nothing of gutting all the remaining rights and freedoms from the Constitution and being the excuse to saddle us with DHS and the TSA. However, the Constitution was gutted lawfully we the people just need to take it back. The sold-out Congress doesn’t have the lawful authority to amend the Constitution which is the organic law itself and supersedes all else.

Sincerely, David Parker stiles stilinski I indeed agree with this, Trump seems like the exact opposite of someone who’s about to save a country. Nevertheless, I just wanted to add that Hitler didn’t only go after jews, but also after homosexuals, physically and mentally ill, people of color, homeless, people who were against his party (who were the reason why the KZs were used the way they were in the first place, that’s how he brought himself up to the top) and people who didn’t have jobs. Though jews were definitely the prime victims when it came to torture and who the guards were against the most. I might have missed a “category” but these are the ones I can think of right now. My point is, he wanted to exterminate and was stopped soon enough before even bigger changes happened, memories should linger on, the third reich is a terrifying subject and people should open their eyes. stiles stilinski He didn’t create those camps for the Jews, at first he locked up the people who were against his party so he could win at all.

Afterwards he started going after Jews but also locking up disabled, mentally ill, people of color, homosexuals and even more, though Jews definitely got the worst part of it, it’s an often made mistake FastNick0001 FEMA are starting one already. So, this guy got his wish. Spartacus Interesting list …. although in a top of 10 worst camps I would replace Ebensee with Mauthausen. The sheer brutality in this Austrian camp on the Danube resulted in the largest numbers of death sentences handed out to camp personnel in camp trials after the war – indeed far in excess of Auschwitz. And I would also replace Bergen Belsen with the women’s camp at Ravensbruck. It existed for the full duration of the war, some 90 000 are thought to have died there and ghastly experiments were carried on women prisoners there. In “defence” of Belsen it was a collection point of prisoners from other camps (including Anne Frank and her sister Margot) which were over-run by the Allies in the closing stages of the war and the numbers became unmanageable in terms of any kind of resources to sustain life.

Terrible, unarguably so but it was an accumulation of everything that these poor souls had suffered before Olen 11 Facts About the Holocaust | DoSomething.org | Volunteer for Social Change Log In 11 Facts About the Holocaust Welcome to DoSomething.org , a global movement of 5.5 million young people making positive change, online and off! The 11 facts you want are below, and the sources for the facts are at the very bottom of the page. After you learn something, do something! Find out how to take action here . Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps in 1945. In Israel, the Knesset made Holocaust Remembrance Day (also known as Yom Hashoah) a national holiday in 1959. Yom Hashoah has been observed with speakers, poems prayers, songs, candlelight ceremonies and more tokens of remembrance. The Holocaust began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. It ended in 1945 when Allied powers defeated the Nazis.

Jewish people were excluded from public life on September 15th, 1935 when the Nuremberg Laws were issued. These laws also stripped German Jews of their citizenship and their right to marry Germans. Tackle a campaign to make the world suck less. Explore Campaigns Once World War II began, the Nazis ordered all Jews to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothing so they could be easily targeted. Jews were forced to live in specific areas of the city called ghettos after the beginning of World War ll. In the larger ghettos, up to 1,000 people a day were picked up and brought by train to concentration camps or death camps. Kristallnacht occurred on November 9th and 10th, 1938. Nazis pillaged, burned synagogues, broke windows of Jewish-owned businesses, and attacked Jewish people in Austria and Germany. 30,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps. In prison camps, prisoners were forced to do hard physical labor. Torture and death within concentration camps were common and frequent. 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust (1.1 million children).

6 million of those victims were Jewish. Other groups targeted by the Nazis were Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, disabled people, and Roma. Two-thirds of Jewish people living in Europe at the time of World War II were killed by Nazis. Sources 1 United States Holocaust Memorial Council. "Liberation of Auschwitz." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Accessed March 28, 2014. . 2 American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise. "Jewish Holidays:Yom Ha'Shoah - Holocaust Memorial Day." Jewish Virtual Library. Accessed March 28, 2014. . 3 Kay, Alan A.. A Jewish book of comfort. Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, 1993. 4 American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise.. "The Holocaust: An Introductory History of the Holocaust An Introductory History." Jewish Virtual Library. Accessed March 28, 2014. . 5 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. "Sinti and Roma." Holocaust Teacher Resource Center. Accessed March 28, 2014. . 6 Boys' Historical Clothing. "The Holocaust in Poland: Initial German Steps (1939-40)." World War II Holocaust.

Accessed March 28, 2014. . 7 Corporate History Department. "Surviving in Fear." Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft. Accessed March 28, 2014. . 8 United States Holocaust Memorial Council. "The "Night of Broken Glass"." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Accessed March 28, 2014. . 9 "The Concentration Camps: The Treatment of Concentration Camp Victims." A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust. Accessed March 28, 2014. . 10 The Rabbi Israel Miller Fund for Shoah Research. "Meeting Hate With Humanity: Life During The Holocaust." The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. Accessed March 28, 2014. . 11 American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise.. "The Holocaust: An Introductory History of the Holocaust An Introductory History." Jewish Virtual Library. Accessed March 28, 2014. . Tackle a campaign to make the world suck less. Ghettos Ghettos Children eating in the ghetto streets. Warsaw, Poland, between 1940 and 1943.

 US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Rafael Scharf During the Holocaust , the creation of ghettos was a key step in the Nazi process of separating, persecuting, and ultimately destroying Europe's Jews. Key Facts —Ghettos were set up to segregate Jews from the rest of the population. —They were designed to be temporary; some lasted only a few days or weeks, others for several years. —The vast majority of ghetto inhabitants died from disease or starvation, were shot, or were deported to killing centers Origin of the Term “Ghetto” The term "ghetto" originated from the name of the Jewish quarter in Venice, Italy. Venetian authorities compelled the city's Jews to live in the quarter, which was established in 1516. In the 16th and 17th centuries, officials ranging from local authorities to the Austrian emperor ordered the creation of ghettos for Jews in Frankfurt, Rome, Prague, and other cities. Ghettos during World War II During World War II , the Germans concentrated urban and sometimes regional Jewish populations in ghettos. Living conditions were miserable.

Ghettos were often enclosed districts that isolated Jews by separating Jewish communities from the non-Jewish population and from other Jewish communities. The Germans established at least 1,000 ghettos in German-occupied and annexed Poland and the Soviet Union alone. There were three types of ghettos : closed ghettos, open ghettos, and destruction ghettos. German occupation authorities established the first ghetto in Poland in Piotrków Trybunalski in October 1939. The largest ghetto in Poland was the Warsaw ghetto . In Warsaw, more than 400,000 Jews were crowded into an area of 1.3 square miles. Other major ghettos were established in the cities of Lodz , Krakow , Bialystok , Lvov , Lublin , Vilna , Kovno , Czestochowa, and Minsk . Tens of thousands of western European Jews were also deported to ghettos in the east. The Germans ordered Jews in the ghettos to wear identifying badges or armbands. They also required many Jews to carry out forced labor for the German Reich.

Nazi-appointed Jewish councils (Judenraete) administered daily life in the ghettos. A ghetto police force enforced the orders of the German authorities and the ordinances of the Jewish councils. This included facilitating deportations to killing centers. Jewish police officials, like Jewish council members, served at the whim of the German authorities. The Germans did not hesitate to kill those Jewish policemen who were perceived to have failed to carry out orders. Ghettos and the "Final Solution" In many places ghettoization lasted a short time. Some ghettos existed for only a few days. Others lasted for months or years. The Germans saw the ghettos as a provisional measure to control and segregate Jews while the Nazi leadership in Berlin deliberated upon options for the removal of the Jewish population. With the implementation of the "Final Solution" (the plan to murder all European Jews) beginning in late 1941, the Germans systematically destroyed the ghettos. The Germans and their auxiliaries either shot ghetto residents in mass graves located nearby or deported them. Jews were deported to killing centers . German SS and police authorities also deported a small minority of Jews from ghettos to forced-labor camps and concentration camps.

In August 1944, German SS and police completed the destruction of the last major ghetto, in Lodz. Resistance Efforts Jews responded with a variety of resistance efforts. Ghetto residents frequently smuggled food, medicine, weapons, or intelligence across the ghetto walls. These and other such activities often took place without the knowledge or approval of the Jewish councils. On the other hand, some Jewish councils and some individual council members tolerated or encouraged the smuggling because the goods were necessary to keep ghetto residents alive. The Germans generally showed little concern in principle about religious worship, attendance at cultural events, or participation in youth movements inside the ghetto walls. However, they often saw a “security threat” in any social gathering and would move ruthlessly to incarcerate or kill perceived ringleaders and participants. The Germans generally forbade any form of consistent schooling or education. In some ghettos, members of Jewish resistance movements staged armed uprisings. The largest of these was the Warsaw ghetto uprising in spring 1943. There were also violent revolts in Vilna, Bialystok, Czestochowa, and several smaller ghettos.

Ghettos in Hungary In Hungary , ghettoization did not begin until the spring of 1944 after the German invasion and occupation. In less than three months, the Hungarian gendarmerie, coordinating with German deportation experts from the Reich Main Office for Security, concentrated nearly 440,000 Jews from all over Hungary except for the capital city, Budapest . They forced the Jews into short-term “destruction ghettos” and then deported them into German custody at the Hungarian border. The Germans deported most of the Hungarian Jews to the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. In Budapest, Hungarian authorities required Jews to confine themselves to marked houses (so-called Star of David houses). On October 15, 1944, leaders of the fascist Arrow Cross movement seized power in a German-sponsored coup. A few weeks later, the Arrow Cross government formally established a ghetto in Budapest. About 63,000 Jews lived in this 0.1 square mile area. Approximately 25,000 Jews who carried certificates indicating they were under the protection of a neutral power were confined in an "international ghetto" in the city.

In January 1945, Soviet forces liberated that part of Budapest in which the two ghettos were located and liberated the nearly 90,000 Jewish residents. Resources Corni, Gustavo. Hitler's Ghettos: Voices from a Beleaguered Society 1939-1944. London: Arnold, 2002. Kermish, Joseph, editor. To Live With Honor and Die with Honor!: Selected Documents from the Warsaw Ghetto Underground Archives "O.S." ("Oneg Shabbath"). Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1986. Sterling, Eric J., editor. Life in the Ghettos during the Holocaust. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2005. Trunk, Isaiah. Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe under Nazi Occupation. New York: Stein and Day, 1977. Trunk, Isaiah. Lodz Ghetto: A History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.

Related Articles Auschwitz Concentration Camp Survivors Return to Mark Anniversary - NBC News Jan 26 2015, 5:48 am ET Auschwitz Concentration Camp Survivors Return to Mark Anniversary by Kiko Itasaka and Paul Ziad Nassar Snow surrounds a watchtower and a barbed-wire fence at the memorial site of the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, on January 25, 2015. Seventy years after it was liberated, 300 Auschwitz survivors -- most now in their nineties -- will on January 27, 2015 return to the former Nazi death camp, the site of the largest single number of murders committed during World War II. JOEL SAGET / AFP - Getty Images Share Holocaust - World War 2 World War 2 Works Cited page The Holocaust was the mass killing of six million Jews during WWII. The Jews and Nazis had several places to go, it was either concentration camps, death camps, gas chambers or Auschwitz. The picture you see above was taken in a concentration camp. The Jews were taken there to work or in other words, suffer.

In the concentration camps there was a chance to actually survive, but in Death Camps there was almost no way of surviving. The Jews also had to live in the Ghetto. They were moved out of their homes and into the Ghetto.The largest ghetto was in Warsaw, with its highest population getting up to 445,000 in March 1941.The people you see in the picture above are people in the concentration camp or maybe even forced-labor camps, were the Jews were forced to work no matter what, if they didn't work, they were killed.While concentration camps were meant to work and starve prisoners to death, extermination camps (also known as death camps) were built for the main purpose of killing large groups of people quickly and efficiently. It is said that about 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust. Six million of these were said to be Jews. The Nazis killed almost about two-thirds of all Jews living in Europe. About 1.1 million children were murdered in the Holocaust. The gas chambers was a big one in the holocaust. The gas chambers is something that they use to put people inside and they would all get heated and burned to death. Create a free website

Question: What was the largest concentration camp formed by the Nazis in World War 11
Answer: Auschwitz